On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 11:08:43 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 7:18:25 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> > I see two hurricanes are headed toward Hawaii - are the Big Island and
> > Maui in the most danger at this point? Is Lester still predicted to
> > miss the islands? Are you looking at the usual amount of rain, heavy
> > rain, or something more on Oahu? I haven't seen Oahu mentioned, so
> > that's a good sign.
> >
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> > I love cooking with wine.
> > Sometimes I even put it in the food.
>
> I saw this today and it is worrisome for sure. A third flooding of this
> office in less than a year would just kill me. The drainage ditch is across
> the parking lot from my office. There's also a huge ass tree with roots
> exposed in the drainage ditch. One of these days, it's going to come down in
> a storm and that's going to be a very big deal. I stopped parking under the
> tree when I saw the roots laid bare under there. I mean, I ain't stupid.
>
> http://khon2.com/2016/08/30/overgrow...ohe-residents/
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> Oh dear, I do hope you don't have that again. Are you near that ditch? We
> have had a lot of flooding in Scotland but I have been very lucky and not
> had any in my house.
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> http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk

The ditch runs alongside our parking lot. I didn't even know the freaking ditch was clogged! My thinking is that some residents couldn't go down in that ditch and start pulling those plants out. Maybe they'll have to do it on the sly - late at night. That would be cool. I'll bring it up at our next club meeting. It would be a nice community project.